Islander
09-22-11, 08:23 AM
By Dave Asprey (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/author/daveasprey/)
September 21, 2011
Dr. Mercola, the top-ranked health blogger, just posted a great piece (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/21/can-eating-this-sweet-treat-decrease-risk-of-the-1-cause-of-death.aspx?e_cid=20110921_DNL_art_1) about dark chocolate and health. (Long time readers will note that I linked back to Mercola.com because that’s what happy healthy bloggers do (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/its-official-dr-mercola-just-copied-the-bulletproof-diet/)…) But Dr. Mercola’s generally on-target advice is missing a key piece of information this time. Read on to learn more.
I’m a big fan of chocolate’s health effects , and blogged about it here (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/why-to-choose-chocolate-over-a-power-bar/)a while back. But Dr. Mercola writes about a new meta-analysis (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21875885) from Cambridge University’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, which evaluated 4,576 studies of chocolate involving 114,009 people, which determined:
Based on observational evidence, levels of chocolate consumption seem to be associated with a substantial reduction in the risk of cardiometabolic disorders.
The Bulletroof Diet (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/the-complete-illustrated-one-page-bulletproof-diet/) – including carefully selected dark chocolate – already addresses cardiometabolic disorders...
Read more: http://www.bulletproofexec.com/what-dr-mercola-didnt-say-about-dark-chocolate-and-cardiovascular-disease/
September 21, 2011
Dr. Mercola, the top-ranked health blogger, just posted a great piece (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/21/can-eating-this-sweet-treat-decrease-risk-of-the-1-cause-of-death.aspx?e_cid=20110921_DNL_art_1) about dark chocolate and health. (Long time readers will note that I linked back to Mercola.com because that’s what happy healthy bloggers do (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/its-official-dr-mercola-just-copied-the-bulletproof-diet/)…) But Dr. Mercola’s generally on-target advice is missing a key piece of information this time. Read on to learn more.
I’m a big fan of chocolate’s health effects , and blogged about it here (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/why-to-choose-chocolate-over-a-power-bar/)a while back. But Dr. Mercola writes about a new meta-analysis (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21875885) from Cambridge University’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, which evaluated 4,576 studies of chocolate involving 114,009 people, which determined:
Based on observational evidence, levels of chocolate consumption seem to be associated with a substantial reduction in the risk of cardiometabolic disorders.
The Bulletroof Diet (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/the-complete-illustrated-one-page-bulletproof-diet/) – including carefully selected dark chocolate – already addresses cardiometabolic disorders...
Read more: http://www.bulletproofexec.com/what-dr-mercola-didnt-say-about-dark-chocolate-and-cardiovascular-disease/